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It seems like the set-up for a bad joke, but try to consider the best nofollow tags analogy: Would you build a road to nowhere and then post a sign proclaiming “This Road Goes Nowhere!”? Or would you save all the wear and tear of building the road in the first place? The nofollow tag marks posts a warning sign along an internet path to nowhere. It either has no effect or it is redundant. Either way it serves no useful purpose…exactly like that road to nowhere.
Tech-savvy bloggers developed the so-called nofollow tag to prevent spammers from stealing their readers’ e-mail addresses and filling innocent people’s inboxes with junk. For the most part, nofollow tags have become obsolete, because spammers have invented sophisticated techniques for avoiding them, and the bloggers sometimes cheat themselves of opportunities to follow-up on loyal readers’ comments. If a dedicated blogger monitors and moderates the comments on her site, she doesn’t really need nofollow tags; she applies “the human test” instead.
Spammers will spam no matter what. It’s what they do. And bloggers will protect themselves far more effectively when they download a plug-in created specifically to get rid of spam comments and spammers. Also, if you are able to moderate your own blog yourself rather than creating nofollow tags, you will have much more success in getting rid of spammers and their comments left on your blog.
Many inexperienced web users use nofollow tags for all of their outgoing links as they assume this is what search engines are looking for; but in all honesty, they can’t make up their minds about the extra effort of inserting nofollow tags, because they seem to have no use in the long-run.
Nofollow tags can be counted as backlinks with some search engines. Therefore, if you are trying to build your website’s value, especially if you want to increase the site’s value by selling ads, then nofollow tags are of no use at all. For instance, if you’re planning to send out a lot of blog comments in order to produce backlinks, nofollow tags will defeat your purpose.
Spammers use blog comments in order to create “spammy” links. Everyone that posts in blog comments ends up suffering, because of these spammers. Posting your comment because you care about the blogger and her subject, you end-up unleashing an avalanche of spam. The good-hearted folks who invest thought and sweat in their websites and blogs. It’s just not fair to those that are trying to create business, friends, etc. within blog comments.
Nofollow tags honestly have no value at all. It means nothing if you use nofollow tags on any type of text, advertisements, and blogs. Nofollow tags mean nothing when it comes to search engine indexing. If a large directory was full of nofollow tags, it would ultimately be nothing because nofollow tags are practically nothing.
This is How I Feel About The NoFollowTags But Now over to you! Do You Follow?
I would love to hear some feedback from other bloggers about your experience with the DoFollow comments. Did you get a lot more spam? Messed up your Pagerank? Or did it help with traffic and comments?
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This Road Goes Nowhere! Lol Salwa, fun analogy you have. Yeah I don’t think we should go nofollow since its equal to shutting your doors from your readers.
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Exatcly Ben!
I use the DoFollow plugin and I haven’t noticed an increase of spam yet. On the other hand, I don’t know if my PR is affected or not either. I’m interested in what others have to say.
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Well PR do get affected actually because Google takes note of who you link to.
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I don’t much care about pagerank sometime as long i get decent traffic and my subcribers are increasing Salwa is happy
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Maybe it’s a good thing that I didnt know what no follow really was before this post.
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lol. Hope i didn’t scare you much!
I just changed my blog to dofollow because I wanted to attract for spammy comments, I mean more visitors. I noticed that many dofollow blogs always require you to use your name instead of a keyword or they will moderate your comment. I haven’t really noticed a whole lot of
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Ben Moreno,
I just recently change my blog too after realising I am not going anywhere with the “nofollow” tag so we will see anyway what happens next :=)
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I haven’t noticed a whole lot of new visitors just yet but I hope it helps. I only care about good conversation and high RSS subscribers on my blog not rankings.
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same here!
I made my blog semi-dofollow. Commenter must make 3 comments minimum to have his/her comments “dofollow” I seen more spam but it comes with a growing blog. Didn’t really mass with my PR because its always been PR 3 for months on end anyway. Can’t seem to get it higher than that.
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KushMoney,
I don’t really get about this whole “PageRank” businesss as sometime you will see google taking one blog from pagerank 5 to 3 or 3 to 5 for no apparent reason!
Pagerank means nothing but some(most) webmasters fail to realize this.
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I don’t pay much attention to them one way or another. My biggest irk is that Google has flat out said you need to use them if you sell links on your site. As a link buyer, I wouldn’t bother paying for a link with that tag on it.
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Lindsay,
Yes I see your point and anyone whos on same situation as you wouldn’t bother.
Glad to see you here again after long time!
Hi Salwa, as you know my blog is a dofollow blog because I want to reward my readers for leaving a comment. I’m not worried about spam as akismet takes care of most of them and I can easily handle the rest. The only problem I have is with some commentators who leave a whole heap of comments, that don’t really build onto the quality of the post, just so they can appear on the top commenter plugin. I don;t mind if they put some thought behind the comment, but pity those you do it just for the sake of making the top 10.
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I know exactly what you mean with mindless ‘looks nice’ “nice post” comments and you just gave me an idea of a blog post
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I have several blogs which nofollow free, they get indexed longer for newly published articles than my other blogs who use nofollow tag…do you think so?
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Kampanye Damai Pemilu Indonesia 2009,
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Hi Salwa,
The only time I use NoFollow Tags is for the affiliate links. I dont see why giving a Dofollow to the companies I am affiliate to. Since they are already getting money from my sales.
Luis
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Marketing Business Review,
Actually that is a good idea of not putting NoFollow Tags on one’s affliate links. I will keep that in mind and thanks for comment, much appreciated!
What you feel (as you wrote in this post) seems to be bit out of sync with what you practice. At least for me every single link is no-follow. Is it so that instead of taking the do-follow road, you are actually taking the Wikipedia road?
Anyway, good article, I must subscribe your feed…
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Jake Stone,
Got me all confused there with your comment as this blog is a do-follow blog. Also to make sure of my recent change I have even add my blog to the PageRush dofollow blog search engine and they have certify that it IS dofollow.
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I can also vouch for this blog being dofollow. It’s really quite easy to tell. Just right click on a link and select properties. if it says external it’s dofollow; if it says external nofollow, well I reckon you know what that means.
Salwa, may I congratulate you on becoming #2 on Cool Blog Links in under a week. That is absolutely awesome. I reckon it won’t be long before you are #1! Man, I’m going to have to really examine this blog to see how you do it.
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Sire,
Lol @ have to examine my blog to see how I do it.
Thank you! I was bit shocked to see my self on number #2. Happy shocked!
I reckon it won’t be too long now before you become no. 1 and to think that you didn’t even have to bare your feet to get there
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Wow! I found this site on Bing. this is really great stuff! I have added your site to my faves. I will be back!